Sounds like a good agenda. #1 Seems like an innovative use of Zynq, also I am focused on camera apps and can be a potential resource within Xilinx to put you in touch with technology that can enable your project (IP, partners, HW, etc.)

and the combination of FPGA and CPU means maximum flexibility for us apertus° Axiom is much more than just “a product”. It’s an open camera platform - ready to evolve into things we haven’t even dreamt of today. The open and extendable nature of the Zynq matches that perfectly

an important aspect for us is that somebody who wants to modify something (hardware or software) can do that easily, and trust me, there are many folks in the cinema/camera community tinkering with their toys :)

making movies is a creative industry so the more open your tools are the less limits you have to deal with in your work and the more potential you have to set yourself ahead of what everybody else is doing

1. Create a proof of concept prototype that uses the CMV12000 image sensor from CMOSIS, interfaces it with an FPGA and is able to capture single frames (full resolution) and motion video (25FPS at Full HD)

if we will go with the Zynq it will have to be a model with high speed serial interfaces so the Z7030 would match the requirements, higher end models are not available with a free/open license so they are no option for us

Many people are currently afraid of buying a camera because of the speed at which new “products” are now being released, making a lot of devices very quickly outdated and obsolete. We want to stress that Axiom will not be outdated anytime soon - it will be constantly evolving - as we rely on FPGA based designs rather than fixed “set-in-stone systems”.

We and the entire community will deliver new interfaces, codecs, firmware and significant degrees of newer functionalities with a simple software download to the camera. It is our intention to use this to create a very powerful ecosystem around Axiom, providing support alongside the development of new features.

Affordable price is what we hope for but not a requirement for the project - we stress that good build quality, durability, flexibility and the ability of the system to evolve over time outweighs the fact that we are not the absolute cheapest.

We have detailed development milestones for the prototype, but since we want to reevlatue all options with a working prototype before we commit to anything for the full camera we have detailed development milsetones for the full Axiom camera yet